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9 June 2018
It’s been an interesting few days and a mixed bag of the good, the bad and the ugly…So after our day of rest it was up and out early from our apartment outside Plock for what we had planned to be a shortish day. We got on our way pretty easily and crossed a huge […]
2 June 2018
A fairly quiet dinner on our last night in Gdansk and we departed our hot apartment (no air con!) early for our first day of cycling in Poland – with really no idea of what to expect and no fixed end destination in mind for the day other than general direction Olszytn which is about […]
30 May 2018
Despite a challenging start to our Swedish adventure, it has been a great week – and we have learned lots of new things about the country and the culture. Here are a few: 1. It’s the first country country on our trip (at least in Scandinavia) where we have encountered things being chained down to […]
27 May 2018
So since day 2 in Sweden we seem to have encountered every midge and mosquito in the country. I know it’s something we will have to get used to on our journey, especially coming into the summer, but Sweden seems to have decided that it should be the country to toughen me up for mozzie […]
21 May 2018
We left a very quiet Oslo on Friday morning as everyone was probably sleeping off their hangovers and headed south out of the city. Had an easy enough exit from the city and were soon on our way…along a fairly busy E18 road, but thankfully on a cycle path for a lot of it. The […]
14 May 2018
Left our alcohol-free campsite having knowingly broken the rules but thankfully had not been arrested in the middle of the night (we were very grown up and camouflaged our beer by drinking out of mugs!) and headed into our final push for Oslo. A fairly uneventful day of cycling through rolling hills and nice scenery, but […]